Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1924, Page 9

SP ORTS SPORTS Accident Jinx Bucks’ Only Worry : Tygers Still Waging Determined Flag Fight GRIFFS COULD BE UPSET BY LOSS OF ANY REGULAR Machine So Delicate That Enforced Withdrawal of Component Part Might Unbalance It—Little Reserve Material Is Uncertain. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ITH pitchers in fine form, b batters meeting the ball in vigorous fashion and a defense working with almost machine-like preci- sion, there is but one thing to worry the Nationals in their grueling drive through the homestret nant chase. And that is the accident While the regu other than the business of beating o cog of the delicately geared mechani s are performing, the club ha ch in the mad American League pen- jinx. little to bother about other flag aspirants, but with any sm out of kilter results are liable to be very uncertain. Spare parts aré none too plentiful in the club’s machine shop and Bucky Harris, boss mechax extra_material available could stand So anything in the way of an 1ic, probably is not so sure that the the hard grind of the pennant mill accident to a regular player might seriously mar the Nationals' chances for the flag. The race for the laurels in the Johnsonian circuit has gotten to a stage so acute that the lay-off for only two or three days even of a first-string man likely would mate- rially affect the club’s prospects of the gonfalo As the club is constituted at pres- ent, every infielder and two of the outfielders appear to be absolute sentials of the organ tion. With § Joe Judge, Stanley rris, Roger | Peckinpaugh and Ossie uege in the | infield, the quartet looms as the| strongest defensively in the American Leagu. Remov any one of the men and the e rtivene: of the in-| ner defense is greatly reduced. { Reserves None Too Certain. This observation is not mere specu- lation, but is based upon the per- for nces of the inside line when some one of the regularly assigned athletes happened to be out of com- | mission this season. During the Na- | tionals’ first Western trip of the year | Judge unfortunately was forced out | of the game by a knee injury sus- tained in Cleveland. A revamped in-| field went along well for a couple of days, then came a decided slump in the inner defense that was not shaken off until Judge got back into harness. As formed regular! infield is too delicately permit the loss of one of its com- | ponent parts without courting dis- aster. Its play is so much faster than that of the average big league in- field, that none of the sccond-string- ers at hand, however likely they ap- pear as prospects, can hope to fill any gap successfully for a length of time. It would indeed be unfortunate were the ankle injury Judge sustain- ed in Thursday's game against the Red Sox, but did not discover until vesterday, prove more serious than thought after the first examfnation by a club physician. Should it de- velop that Joe has worse than a bruised tendon and be forced to forego plaving for several davs, the Bucks' might find the going in the race a deal rougher than anticipated. | Consider how damaging it would be to the club were Harris, Peck or Bluege to be shoved to the sideline by mishap. The few times any of these men has been out of comm sion during the campaign defensive play has fallen well below the usual standard. The reserve material gives its best to the Bucks, of course, but to approach the regulars in brilliancy is entirely too much to ask of any of them. There probably is a wider gap between the regular and reserve in- fielders with the Bucks than between regulars and reserves of other teams in the circuit. ¥ Scant Outfield Talent. Probably no other .club in the majors in recent years ever went into the stretch of a pennant race with but four outfielders, as the Nationals are doing. Consider the effect on the club of the loss of either Sam Rice or Goose Goslin for several days. Earl McNeely and Nemo Leibold are the only other pasturemen on the roster, and they may really be counted as one, as they have been used. McNeely really is an experiment, albeit a suecessful one so far. Leibold generally can be depended upon to give a splendid account of himself in the field, but at times his legs fail him and he has to retire for a few days. But he is scarcely a man to replace a Goslin or a Rice, Nor can McNeely, fresh from the minors, where he had scant experi- ence, be figured as a worthy successor 10 either of these men at present. He has stepped along fast since joining the Bucks, but still has far to go to be a polished outergardener. All of the foegoing reveals just why the Nationals' boss at times shudders at the thought of the acci- dent jinx. Let that animal get loose among the regulars of the Washing- ton club and everything probably would go blooie. There's not enough reserve material of substantial cali- ber around the outfit to-neatly patch any places that may become marred by injury to a player. The available material makes the repaired part appear good for a short time, but it is doubtful if it is sturdy enough to withstand the wear and tear of such a grind as promises to be the lot of Manager Stanley Harris' aggregation the remainder of the month. ' es- | H the National balanced to Judge’s sore angle was given in- iensive treatrsent yesterday, and the first-sacker probably will be at to- day's game. Manager Harris, how- ever, .may use, Mule Shirley at the station and givé his regular more rest. But Je is not keen about hav- ing his hard-hitting firstbaseman out of action very long. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high commissioner of base ball, was expected to visit President Clark Griflith of the Bucks this afternoon to discuss seating arrangements in| the local park for possible world | series games here. | Admirers of Johnson, who missed Thursday’'s game, are hoping the Kansas thunderbolt will get into action for an inning or two tomorrow. There is little chance that Walter will toe the slab during the fray, but many are anxious te get a final glimpse of the big fellow, who de- clares this will be his last season in the majors. HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING AB. H. 8B. RBL Pot. 4 5 342 13 101 20 68 ik - cenbuohacolics .17 39 12 . 77 228 €9 ‘126 420 119 L 14 46, 14 .22 70 19 32 456 123 . 95 85 Peckinpaugh 132 446 116 Zachary . Shirley Miller Speece Mogridge Hargrave Zahniser Marberry —_— e Mary K. Browne of California, who was the greatest of all woman tennis players 10 years ago, is also a golf champion, - ° whasmooniifaci8aalae HH BT H <182 161 61 143 MOUNT RAINIER NINE FACES ORIOLE CLUB Mount Rainier is at Baltimore to- day meeting the Rolling Mills nine it Oriole Park in the first of a three- game intercity series to determine the te that will represent this section rainst the Middle West con- tenders in the National Base Ball Federation titular matches. Today's game was scheduled to start at 3 o'clock Irving Batson or Bill Hoffman was due to toil on the mound for Mount Rainier. The suburban players and their fans expected to leave Union Station at 12:15 o'clock in a special coach Lafayette Athletic Clab disposed of the Modoc nine, 5 to 1, when it slammed 10 bingles off the slants of R. Poore, Parker and Cheseldine batted well for the winners. Crexcents upset calculations by turning in a 6-to-4 triumph over the White Sox. Shloss and Scruggs of the White Sox each accounted for a pair of blows. as well as Rupertus and Price of the winners, INTERCITY I:-’LAYGROUND MEET AT CENTRAL FIELD Athletes of the District playgrounds hoped to point the way to a Baltimore playground team today in Central Stadium in the first intercity play- ground track and field meet ever held between the two cities. The first event on the program was to be started at 2. Several athletes of the local high R(‘hfmls were expected to bring in their share of points for Washington. Baltimore was to be represented by 70 youngsters. G. U. MEN SCRIMMAGING AT VIRGINIA GRID CAMP ORANGE, Va., September 6.—Life for Georgetown University's gridders, who are in the midst of a 15-day training campaign here, will be one arduous drill after another from now on. Coaches Little and Palm drove the entire 43 men through 20 minutes of real scrimmaging yesterday. The Blue and Gray mentors intend to in- crease the rough work day by day until the men are ready for actual practice combat. \ Paul Sirk, W. H. Odam and Arthur Norton of Nebraska are the latest candidates to arrive in camp. Jfm McNamara has been sent back to Washington, where he will receive treatment for hardened tendons. FIELD DAY SCHEDULED FOR COLORED LEAGUERS Players of the Colored Depart- mental Base Ball League are compet- ing in_a field day this afternoon at Union Park starting to 1:30 o’'clock. An all-star team, representing the league, will encounter a picked combination from the Government Printing Office in a ball game. The following pla: ers have been mustered for the De- partmental nine: Payne, Flippin, Brickhouse, H. Wi liams and Taylor of the Bureau; Freeman, Plummer and C. Johnson of C. P. O.; Manley, Grant, Baylor, S. Williams and Stewart of Treasury; Beckwith, Dedeaux, Holmes, Craig and E. Taylor_of War and Navy; Dorsey of the Registers, and Barron of Railway Mail Service. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Toronto, 8; Rochester, 2. All othér games postpopned (raid). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Indianapolis, 5; Toledo, 8. Milwaukee, 5: St 2, Minneapolis, 6-14; Kansas City, 24. Louisville, 8; Colombus, 3. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. New Orleans, 8; Atlanta, 6. Memphis, 6; Nashville, 5. Mobile, i1;’ Birmingham, 1. Little Rock, 10; Chattanooga, 9. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Norfolk. 8; Richmond, 4 (8 tnnings; dark- ness). Petersburg, 5: Rocky Mount, 0. Portsmouth, 11; Wilson, 1. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. High Point, 2; Durham, 0. Winston-Salem, 5; Greensboro, 1. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. POST-SEASON. Bristos noxville, 2 (10 innings). GRIFFMEN COMPARE WELL | | charged an ARGENTINE WOMAN FAILS TO MAKE CHANNEL SWIM By the Associated Press. BOULOGNE, France, September G.—Lillian Harrison, the Anglo- Argentine swimmer, falled today in her attempt to swim the Eng- lish Channel, begun from the French side, at Cap Gris-Nes, at 11150 o'clock last night. Miss Harrison gave up in mid- channel after having remained in the water eight hours. WILLS, UNLIKE FIRPO, TRAINS IN SECLUSION NEW YORK, September 6.—Harry Wills and Luis Firpo, opposite in color, temperament and experience, differ as widely on training methods. The camp of the “Wild Bull” first was pitched amid something of gavety and excitement at Saratoga Sprin and now is centered in that fistic mecea Madison Square Garden. Wills has chosen a secludéd spot on Peconic Bay, near Southampton, ¢ miles from a telephone. Firpo’s workouts were attended at Saratoga by patrons who were admission fee and now he is an_attraction for the curious in New York; Wills, comparatively free from inspection, is entirely un- hampered by disturbing influences. Numerous sparring partpers and attaches attend the Argentinie, but the negro confines his alds to two men of his own race, both personal friend Battling Owens and Jeft Clarke. the former for strength and the latter for speed. Firpo is surrounded entirely by masculine attendants: Wills lives a simple home life with his wife, his dog and his radio. The two challengers for Jack Dempsey’s heavyweight crown agree on one point—neither follows the advice of a trainer, but is guided in his preparation by his own feelings, based on experience in tralning for other engagements. ARGENTINE’S ARREST IS EXPECTED TODAY :W YORK, September 6.—The arrest of Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine boxer matched with Harry Wills. negro heavyweight, for next Thurs- day, was expected today following an announcement by Henry H. Cur- ran, commissioner of immigratio N that he would be taken into custody | upon receipt of a warrant from the| Secretary of Labor at Washington, D, C. He indicated that this warrant probably would be received in tele- graphic form to expedite proceedings begun after Canon William Sheafe Chase had brought witnesses and documents before Commissioner Cur- ran on subpoena vesterday. Canon Chase, who has conducted an independent investigation for the past, dence showed that Firpo, a vear ago, while preparing for his fight with | Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham- pion, had assisted Blanca Picart in| entering this country under illegal conditions. Tex Rickard, promoter of the Firpo-Wills bout has announced that he will provide bail in any amout for Firpo so that the fight may nesses and prepare for a"trial. CURTIN TO FIGHT SHEA. CHICAGO, September 6.—TIrish Johnny Curtin of Jersey City has been matched to box Eddie Shea, Chicago featherweight, in a 10-round contest at Aurora next Friday nigh month, asserted that his evi- | take | place during the customary time al- | lowed a defendant to assemble wit-| YANKS MORE national polo matches between Brook starting next Tuesday. gland fact that the Pri a sporting, event.) N event ing variations in the play of the riva They will wen the An n play- ers ever ready to leave thelr poxl thons when emorgency dietates it Wil not be unukual to mee thres and even all the four players proming for & score— wherean the Hritish will be more connorvative. The back, for instance, will he more loathe to leave hix position and come throukh, and so with the No, 3 The riding maxter probably would not hesitate to commend the riding form of the British aw superior to American form: for In polo the lish have traditionally made m K00d riding and the Americans more of hitting. The ftypieal British stroke has been delivered from firm seat in the saddle, : Americans have hit while standing in the stirrups, thus getting much greater force and accuracy to thelr drives Yankees More Aggressive. In the matter contest, of riding off a man, or riding him out, the Amer- feans have been much more aggres. sive. so that the characteristic game in this country has involved a specles of interference not unlike that seen In a foot ball game. As may be imagined Interference when done on the back of a galloping thoroughbred is somewhat more spectacular than when opponents are afoot. But American poloists habitually hit their opponents with abandon, and after last year's series between the American and Hurlingham came to realize that Brit- ish teams could meet those of the United States with equal chances of victory, only on the same hard rid- ing terms. It is likely. therefore, that the 1924 series will find the British prepared to smash in quite as hard as their American cousins, a fact which will \4 ‘W YORK, September 6.-W te day before an brilliant a thre aspects of the contests. Facilities in England Poor. A curious fact concerning polo ir England is that facilities for the development of first-class play are really inadequate. There are few flelds in London and by midsummer these grounds are cut up, conducive to good polo. When the American team was Loondon in 1921 preparing for series of that vear the field was closed some time before the series began in order that it would | be in good shape for the interna- tional tests. Réehampton alone was available, and both the British and American fours wera accordingly limited in their practie. American fields of the finest turf and grading, on the other hand, abound in all states where the game is played. And in addition, there are private fields that compare With any of the club grounds. British in the past have been somewhat at loss upon the fast flelds of this country, where a ball rolls true and far and the footing is flawless. in the Visitors Under No Handicap. In the fortnight they have been practicing here the British players have tried to accustom themselves to GIANTS BRACE; WIN PAIR TO RETAIN LEAGUE LEAD By the Associated Press. N nered battle for first honors in the over_the hapless Phillies. OTED for their fighting qualities and always playing at top speed when they feel their opponent’s hot breath on their necks, the New York Giants today maintain their league lead in the tri-cor- National League by a double victory Brooklyn, with the pennant in sight, stretched its winning spurt into 14 straight games by defeating Boston, but saw the Giant lead increase from 3 to 6 points. POTOMAC CLUB BOATMEN HOLD CLOSED REGATTA Potomac Boat Club members were to eompete in a club regatta today on the Potomac, starting at 2:30 o'clock. Water events of many kinds were scheduled. A dance will be held at the clubhouse tonight. HORNSBY TO GET BACK IN GAME TOMORROW ST. LOUIS, Mo.. September 6.— Rogers Hornsby, star second base- man of the St. Louis Nationals, whose sensational batting in the. National League was temporarily stopped when he injured his back, will re- turn to the game here tomorrow, It was announced today. At the time of his injury Hornsby was hitting 432, with 202 hits for 336 bases to his credit. Of these hits 23 were home runs. . HOLLOCHER, ILL, QUITS CUBS. CHICAGO, September 6.—Charles Hollocher, shortstop with the Chicago Nationals, whose health has been fail- ing, has left for his home in St. Louis. Hollocher is contemplating a trip to the Southwest in the hope of improv- ing his condition. WITH YANKEES IN ATTACK By the Associated Press. W ASHINGTON'’S gallant fight to conquer the Yankees in the race for the American League champions?p is an interesting tale of figures reflected in the batting averdges today. Comparison of the Yankees and Nationals reveals each has four players hitting in the select .300 class. Outfielder Goslin leads the Nationals in batting with .335, followed by Rice with .328. Judge is hitting 317 and Leibold .304. The Yankees have their mighty Ruth as the batting mainstay. The Babe, however, has shown a tendency to slip, the latest averages, Includ- ing games of Wednesday, giving him an gaverage of .386, compared with .392 a week ago. He has totalled 42 homers. Ernie Johnson, a utility player, is batting .358, Meusel .318 and Dugan an even .300. - ‘Washington has almost reached the 200 mark in sacrifice hits and of these Stanley Harris, the boy manager, him- self is credited with 41. Harris also is tied with his teammate, Sam Rice, for the honor of running next to Eddie Collins of the White Sox in bases, Thay, base 13 compared with 39 for Collins. The ‘Washington team reached the 100 mark in thefts, compared with 68 for the Yankees. ‘Walter Johnson, pitching ace of the Griffmen, is the outstanding pitcher of the league. He is enjoying a per- centage of .760, the count being 18 victories and 6 defeats. In team batting, the Yankees ex- cel. They have gathered 1,312 hits for a total of 1,919 bases, compared with 1,283 hits for the Nationals for | 1,692 bases. The Washington play- ers have scored 616 runs, compared with 685 for the Yankee: In sacri- fice hitting, however, the Griffs have scored 196, compared with 163 for their apponents, Howard Baldwin, recently recalled from Toledo, twirled for the Giants in their first victory, which was close, 6 to 5. The tension of the first contest must have been a tonic for the New Yorkers for in the second game, a seven-inning affair because of the rain, they ran amuck and tal- lfed 15 times to but 3 for Philadelphia, Continuing their sensational play of the last two weeks, the Brooklyn Robins defeated Boston, 4 to 0. Rube Ehrhardt, Manager Robinson's dis- covery, acquired the consecutive win- ning habit and hung up his fourth straight victory. He outpitched the veteran Barnes, holding the Braves to five bingles. Cincinnati, fighting for a berth in the first division, conquered the Cubs, 3 to 1, In the fastest played game of the season. The, contest consumed but 70 minutes of the players’ time. The victory puts the Reds 1 point behind the fourth place Chicago.team. Pittsburgh had to stand by help- lessly because of rain, while the Giants and Robins_were increasing their lead aver the Pirates at the ex- Dense of weaker teams. The Tigers made a determined bid in the American League to close the 8ap between them and the Nationals and Yankees, by trimming the In- dians twice. Detroit won the first contest, 7 to 3, and figuratively ran themselves ‘ragged In the second game, tallying 20 times, while Cleve- land scored once. Their 20-to-1 vic- tory gives the Tigers the honors for the season in high tallies for one game. Cvengros’ effective’ pitching: alded the White Sox in defeating St. Loul: 4 to 1. The Chicago twirler held the Browns to three singles. FINAL ROUND TOMORROW IN HARDING CUP TENNIS Four matches, which will determine the semi-finalists in the junior school- boy tennis tournament for the Harding femorial cup, were to be played at Chevy Chase today. Play started at 9:30 o'clock. The pairings were: Barr vs. Edmonston, Elliott vs. J. Mitchell, D. Mitchell vs. Callan, Sturtevant vs. Noel. Semi-finals were to be played this afterncon and the final will l‘m started tomorrow at 12:30. Yesterday’s GIANTS BUY SLUGE! QUEBEC, -September ~ 6.—*Buck” Fraser, hard-hitting outflelder of the Quebec base ball team, has been sold to the New York Giants and is sched- uled $0 report next Monday, IN POLO THAN BRITISH BY LAWRENCE PERRY. | (This is the last of a series of six dispatches by Latwrence Perry, noted au- | #afe_for play caused the postpone- thority on polo, as well as other amateur sports, preliminary to the great inter- ms meet on the international field at Mcadow Brook next Tues- spectators versed in the game British army fours | do nothing to lessen the spectacular | the turf | practically gone and in general not | Hurlingham | AGGRESSIVE and America, to be played at Meadow ill at- | I hen the American and British polo g as ever assembled at a sporting will be quick to catch certain strik- fours. the new conditions, and since the change from bad to better conditions | should iInvolve less difficulty than changing from good to poor condi- tlons it 1s likely the invading play- ers will be under little, if any, hand- leup In this respeet. i With respect to the outeome of the | werles which begin today, it should| frankly that if the| team that rhed up to Lord Wimborne's 1914 combination the chances would favor the Britis For the American four is in such plight as in 1914, when Harr: Payne Whitney had retired from pol and Louls Stoddard was out While not an exceptionall Hant player, when judged in 1v, Stoddard was none the le 6.1, because of his complets re of the game, his uncanny to work into the swiftly deve ing schemes of attack, as directed | first by Whitney and subsequently by Devereaux Milburn. Watson Webb Moved Forward. He has retired from the game, and this placed before the tion authorities the problem of find- Ing a man to replace him. To this| end Watson Webh was moved from his place at No. 3 to the forward po- sition and Eric Pedley, the young Californian, received a thorough try- | out. In individual brilliancy ther was little to choose between the two men, but Watson's experience and his | ability to blend in with the combina- tion won him the post. It is not too | certain, however, that Pedley may not | get in at least one of the ] With either playing, though, it is not established that the team will| | be as strong up forward would | be were Stoddard up to his best form | and a member of the team. Then at | | No. 3 Malcolm Stevenson is taking | | the place left vacant by Webb. Webh | probably is the best No. 3 in the| world, and, while Stevenson at his| | best might approach the Webb stand {ard, he is not always at his best, | being temperamental and liable | strike out for himself. | | If the team fuses in this series and each man plays up to his highest it Iwill be a formidable combination Otherwise it will not realize its pos- sibilities. Shonld Defeat Invaders. | But in any event it would seem to be good enough to defeat the British outfit. Polo has been in a slump in England since the war. Star play | gave their lives in that strug; the development of younger ceased. As a consequence the re- | sponsibility in large measure has rested upon men who have been in | the game for years. Then, too, there have been charges { that unsatisfactory methods of vari- | ous sorts were employed in selecting members of the British four. On the whole, however, 1t would appear that England has sent here the best team that could have been organized under existing circumstances, and certainly the players have it in them to put up a very fine brand of polo and to play a series of games against their ‘American rivals that will be thrilling and spectacular. ight, 1924, Inside Golf By Chester Horto knowl- ihil- Polo Associa- | to! Having the feet too clone together in the stance position could hardly rae error than havin; Lo b them too far apart, but it is at least as bad for the golfer. Since planting the feet too far apart usually pro- motes rigidity throughout the body, having them too close together has the opposite eflect of promot- ing looseness. It is well to be loose and free with the muscles, but it is disastrous to be too much so. /| When the feet are too close together the shoulders and the middle body Inck, during the swing, the automatic control that would be exercised upon thewe parts of the body if the feet were solidly and naturally on the ground in just the right position to maintain a check on the rest of the body and control fits balance. The feet are! “balancers” and should be so under- stood. More than anything else, they maintain the poise of the body be- cnuse, I presume, they re im- mediaie contact with the ground. The golf swing, in a way, begins and ends with your feet. They conmtrol it more, perhaps, than any other body members. Get squarely on your feet 1 let them assume a natarally solid d comfortable position during the (Copyright, 1924.) BOUT FOR MIKE DUNDEE. CHICAGO, September 6.—Mike Dun- dee, Rock Island, Ill., a contender for the featherweight title vacated by Johnny Dundee, today was matched to box Eddie “Kid” Wagner of Phila- delphia in a 10-round contest at Au- rora September 19. AMERICAN LEAGUE. |INTERNATIONAL POLO In this series Mr. Perry deals with the his-| American and British fours. tory of the game, its rules and the prominent polo players of the-world. The| of Wales and high dignitarics of both countrics tend the matches this year gives them an unusual interest as a social, as well as | were to oppose the Krucoff-De Souza i tor the title, took 156 strokes. | teurs, MATCH POSTPONED NEW YORK, September 6.—Rain which yedterday saturated the inter- national field and made the turf un- ment today of the first of the inter- national polo series between the As a re- sult, the first game will be played next Tuesday, the second and third matehes following on their original dates unless the weather causes a further postponement. The special committee in charge of the international series held out until the last minute last night before de- claring the match off, but just before dark it was decmed advisable to postpone the opening tilt until Tues- day. he advance sale of seats had reached the 40,000 point and the com- mittee was reluctant to take this ac- tion unless it was necessary, but in a statement made public the committee said the turf was in such condition that it would be unsafe to allow the game to proceed. POLO THIS AFTERNOON. Polo pl: s of the War Depart- ment and Fort Myer expected to sup- ply the action in a practice tilt start- ing at 3 o'clock at Potomac Park. WOMAN RACKETERS PLAY TOURNEY FINALS TODAY Helen Sinclair and Louise Kelley were scheduled to meet in the final ch of the singles in the Women's Tennis League tourney today at 2 o'clock on the Columbia courts. Mrs. Beatrice Smith and Maycita De Souza were to be opponents in the consolation singles hatch, while Corinne Frazier and Loufse Kelley r team in the doubles final. | MEHLHORN LEADING IN WESTERN OPEN I CHICAC sptember 6. — Sixty- seven fine golfers reported to Charles O. Pfiel, president of the Western ion, at the Calumet Club this morning and started on the final 26 holes of the contest to determine who &hould take the Western open championship, held by Jock Hutchison of Chicago. It appeared that the crown would rest on a new brow, for Hutchison, in the two elimination rounds, which counts in the scoring Leading the contestants at the start of today's play was William Mehl- horn of St. Louis, who, by virtue of a 70 yesterday, topped the field at the half-way mark with a score of 146. Pressing him closely were two ama- Chick Evans of Chicago, who and Eddie Held of St. Louis | Al Watrous of Grand]| Abe Espinosa of San came next among the pro- with 149 each. Al pinosa of Chicago, Leo Diegel of ington and Jick Burke of St. ul were only four strokes behind the leader. Another St. Paul professional, Jock Hendry, was only five strokes behind the pace maker, as was Eddie Loos of Chicago. Twenty-seven of the survivors are | Chicagoans and most of the other plavers represent the Middle West. The Eastern Coast qualified only three golfers and the South one, while the Pacific Coast got four into round. day’s scores were exception- | ally good considering the cold wind, | and experts predicted that scores | would improve today if the weather d 147, | Trice. Ricl RIVALS CANNOT SLIGHT COBBMEN IN FINAL RUSH Club Is Bound to Fight East Desperately in Long Home Stand—Yankees and Giants, Afflicted With “Nerves,”” Now Need More Ginger. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NEW YORK, September 6.—The Detroits are back in the ght again after seemingly drifting away from the storm center in the Americas League. likely to get badly left before the en Any team that takes it for granted that they are out of it . d of the season The Tygers are bound home to fight out evervthing on their own aviation field and no team will get away from the Michigan jungl out being badly scratched until the admit that he cannot finish first or sccond jump to Boston Washington will play in_Philadelp h winning the pe or Washington gets jolted by a presumably weaker r West that team may play a melancholy game on the t-ip. hting hard Next Monday the Yankee season. games will have a lot to do wi win, both will go into the West fi HALE AND LAWYER IN ARMY GOLF FINAL LEAVENWORTH, Kans., September 6—Capt. Fraser Hale, 4th Army Corps Area, Atlanta. Ga., and Lieut. G. A. Lawyer, 2d Corps Area, N York, teed off today at the Fort Leavenworth links in the final match of the tournament for the golf cham- pionship of the United States Army. Both have plaved consistent golf from the qualifying rounds, when Capt. Hale turned in a card of 150 and Lieut. Lawyer one of 151. In the semi-finals yesterday Capt. Hale defeated Maj. Eugene Reybold of the 7th Army Corps, Fort Leaven- worth, 6 up and 5 to play. Maj. Reybold broke at the nineteenth hole and Capt. Hale outdrove and out- putted him until the thirty-first, which Maj. Reybold forfeited when the lieutenant made it in a birdie 2. Lieut. Lawyer won from Lieut. L. G. Seeligson, 8th Corps Area, San Antonio, 7 up and 6 to play. Lieut Lawyer was 1 up at the end of the morning eighteen holes, but gradually | increased his lead on the afternoon round. NETMEN BATTLING IN MUNICIPAL FINAL Maurice V. O'Neill, defending cham- pion, was to meet A. W. Russett to day at 2 o'clock on the Tidal Basin courts in the singles final of the municipal court tennis tournament. By virtue of his victory over Dick Newby, 6—4, 6—2, O'Neill won the right to enter the final. Today's pair- ings follow: Singles (finals)—O'Neill vs. Russett. Doubles (third round) — 0'Neill-Trigg, Cornell-Wilson vs. Flaonery- rdson-Cox _vs. Russett-McConnell. Fourth round—Bryn-Noell vs. winner Richard- s0n-Cox, Russett-McConnell ‘match; Hancker. Burke vs. winner Gammett-Wilson, Flannery- Trice match: Hutley-Law vs. winner Dodge- Detwiler, O'Neill-Trigg match. Yesterday's results Doubles. (second round) —Ratley Law Sefeat- ed Roland] 5 To0, G 0'Nedl: Trigg, won by defsult. Third, round—Rutley- Law defeated Dean-Robins 6—3. 6—3. Fourth round—Van Pelt-Coe defeated Rathgeber-Calti- biano 3—6, 6—3, 6—-0. SCHALK ON THE SHELF. CHICAGO, September 6.—Ray Schalk, White Sox catcher. will be out of the game for at least 10 days, physicians said today, as a result of a finger fractured when struck by a | foul tip. Schalk continued to play until yesterday, when he submitted more propitio! to a X-ray examination. 'MISS BROWNE IS PLAYING | MRS. HURD FOR GOLF TITLE NAYATT, R. L, September 6.—Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Phila- delphia was leading Miss Mary K. Browne 5 up when they had played 18 holes today in their 36-hole match pionship. N for the national women’s golf cham- AYATT, R. I, September 6.—Another athletic championship for the Pacific Coast is a possibility today. Miss Mary K. Browne, former tennis champion, who has made a sensational debut in national golf just after playing in the semi-finals of the women’s national tennis tournament, today meets Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Philadelphia, in the 36-hole final round for the women’s national golf championship. FRENCH TENNIS TEAM NEEDS DUAL VICTORY BROOKLINE, Mass, September 6.—Australia needs to win but one of the two singles matches against France scheduled for today to qual- ify for the challenge round for the Davis cup tennis trophy, while France must take both or return overseas eliminated from Davis cup play by Australia for the third suc- cessive year. Play began on the Longwood Country Club courts here on_Thursday. = Gerald Patterson, Australian cap- tain, who was defeated Thursday in straight sets by the 20-year-old La Coste, will face Jean Borotra, the leader of the French team. Phat O'Hara Wood will then oppose Rene La Coste. , In yesterday’s doubles match the Australians had too much speed, the Frenchmen being unable to cope with the superior hitting power directed at them, and won in stralght sets On the first day of play, La Coste de- feated Patterson and Wood defeated Borotra. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. 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BLL stPitbergh = EPlctabh at Cincioastl, at Oincinnati Ohicage ZLouis, at Bostes. Miss Browne has a formidable op- nonent in Mrs. Hurd, whose record as a holder of golf titles is unsurpassed. As Dorothy Campbell she won the British, Canadian and American cham- pionships in 1909, and she won the American title again in 1910. In 1920 she was runner-up in the American event to Miss Alexa Sterling of At- lanta. Miss Browne qualified with 96, then defeated Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson, for- mer champion, by 6 and 4; Miss Louise Fordyce, Ohio champion, by 2 and 1, and Miss Bernice Wall of Oshkosh, Wis., by 5 and 4. Then on a 19-hole match she defeated Miss Glenna Col- lett of Providence, who won the qualifying medal with 79. Mrs, Hurd, who qualified with 91, advanced by defeating Miss Marion Hollins of New York, 4 and 3; Miss Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J., First round—Panis vs. Dodge-Detwiler vs. | time comes when Cobb is w that time ever comes. If either New ciore starting both of them nant. The handicap that the Yankees face right now am is already | affiicted w i is so radi- cally different from its 1923 complex | that it needs tting from the toes ». ork players walk around as if in a daze, quite unlike the pert and perky wd that smashed | its way through in 1923 with a pitch- | ing staff that could not lose. New York Clubs Huggi inspirational when “het up rood adviser to men, has his hands full try to prop up a te th as shown weak: in the joints, and att e a little ginger into the old llows who cave | fast when the tide turns ably is having the same who are time get has turned they are losing are getting the Pepless.” aceustomed to wi | set in the notion t | against them when | They feel that they time on a hot The Washin; | from nome s well as the New Yorks and that is the only thing that g the Yankees a little ray of sunst | now and then. What a ity the Brooklyns did not double-header to play They might have set up {a record of five twin victorics in sues cessive da. and that would have | been a mark that would have stood | for a long time. | Losses Tell Heavily. The Giants gathered a double: | header in their sortie into Philadel- | phia_and picked up half a game on | the Brooklyns, who were able to win {only game because that was all played. It was sorely needed | because another defeat would have put the Giants where they would have | been the underdog and much on the | defens It is defeats in base ball | that lose pennants. A game lost takes off six points and a game won | adds only three While the Brooklyn club is doing such wondrous stunts, it should not be overlooked that there is a youns pitcher named Ehrhardt, who came up from Florida, unsung by any ex- | cept the bard of Kissimmee, who has | been doing nothing much except win- | ning ball games for Brooklyn. | “It is the result of good example,’ | said Uncle Robby. | (Copyright, 1924.) | U. S. DAVIS CUP MEN IN EAST-WEST PLAY . N. Y. September of the Ame PDavis cup team will compete i afternoon at the West Side Tennis { Club in the annual East-West tour- | nament. their last appeara | competition before the round. William T. Tilden, tional champion, is not entered. Greatest interest attaches to the contest between Vincent Richards of Yonkers, N. Y. : Johnston of San Francisco, the American internationalists. is the first and perhaps only match between them this season and should go far toward determining which will gain second place in the N tional ranking. Johnston now stan No. 2 and Richards No. 4. The feature doubles match brings together the Kinsey brothers, - tional champions. and Richards and Francis T. Hunter, Olympic title- holders. In the other singles tests Dr George King of New York meets Howard Kinsey of San Francisco, Watson M. Washburn of New York ac ‘nce J. Griffin of San Fran- s0 and Francis T. Hunter of Bec! W. Va., oppo: Robert Kinsey an Francisco. Another doubles match will bring Karl Behr and Wat- son Washburn of New York against Johnston, and Griffin. FILIPINO NET PLAYERS OPEN ANNUAL TOURNEY¥ Filipino netmen expected to com- plete the first and Second rounds in their annual tennis tournament to- day, starting at 2:45 o'clock on the Monument lot courts. Double en- tries now are being received. To- day's pairings follow: Ortega, Graves_vi. 6 and 4; Miss Miriam Burns of Kansas | F. Silva, Coronel vs. Sanidad, P. Silva vs. Ven. City, 3 and 2, and Mrs. C. H. Vander- beck of Philadelphia, 2 and 1. GOLF AS EASY AS TENNIS FOR CALIFORNIA WOMAN NEW YORK, September 6.—Miss Mary K. Browne, who defeated Miss Glenna Collett in the semi-finals of the women's national golf tourna- ment at Nayatt, R. L, yesterday, was the queen of the American courts from 1912 to 1913. She replaced an- other Californian, Miss Hazel Hoteh- kiss, now Mrs. George W. Wightman of Boston. During that period she also shared national titles in the women's mixed doubles. Miss Browne retired from active campaigring until 1921, when she staged a brilliant comeback, reaching the finals of the title tournament at Forest Hills, where she forced Mrs. Molla Mallory to three sets before losing. Again- this season the Cali- fornia sportswoman returned to the champlonships this time going to the semi-finals of the singles, where she gave the titleholder, Miss Helen Wills, an extra set battle and the keenest fight the latter had through- out the tournament in defense of her laurels. HILLDALE NINE LEADING EASTERIN COLORED LOOP Hilldale tossers have practically clinched the title in the Eastern Col- ored League, notwithstanding that they dropped a 6-to-4 game to the ‘Washington , Potomacs Thursday at Philadelphia. Forty-four wins in 64 starts is the record of Hilldale. The Baltimore Black Sox, second in the race at the present time, have copped 28 victories and lost 19 games, tenilla. Second round—Soriano vs. Sulit, Crozco vs, Cornejo, A. de Leon vs, S. de Lecn, Tana 5. Santos.” Guevara vs. Acantilado, Rivera vs. Lansang. 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